Each season EA Sports rules the football video game landscape with their College Football and Madden franchises.

I’m not going to carry on about all the improvements that each has made over the last release.

There is enough material available that has already done that and more.

In my opinion, is it enough to say both are awesome and therefore obvious must-have’s for most gamers.

Instead, I decided to take a path less traveled.

My segment on College Football 12 will be how our local teams did in their respective upcoming seasons.

Now granted, one week is down, but it did take a good chunk of time AND I had the first week recorded before the actual season began (I found the similarities from the first week fairly interesting).

As College Football 12 doesn’t have some of the lower division teams our local boys face, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed they would all pull out wins against the lesser foes (fingers crossed).

The results were close to what I anticipated.

The Colorado Buffaloes finished 5-8, although some games were closer than expected.

The Colorado State Rams fared a little better, pulling out a 7-5 record.

The Air Force Falcons came in even at 6-6, but history suggests they often don’t get the respect they deserve. Even in the world of video games.

The Rams managed a winning record (7-5) for coach Steve Fairchild. Losing and winning the games they would be expected to. The play of quarterback Pete Thomas seemed to carry them. I couldn’t help but notice some of the deep completions throughout the season.

The seemingly always underestimated Falcons managed a rather pedestrian record (6-6) under coach Troy Calhoun. Personally, I had them winning two more game, but it will be interesting to monitor the actual results as the season progresses.

A&E reporter John Wenzel has covered a variety of topics for The Denver Post over the years, including video games, comedy, music and the fine arts. He's been playing and loving video games since his dad brought home a sweet ColecoVision in 1983. Catch him on PSN as beardsandgum.

Hugh got his start writing for the Cheyenne and Woodmen Edition newspapers in Colorado Springs. In 2011 he moved to Denver where he has written for Denver Urban Spectrum and Colorado Community Media’s Wheat Ridge Transcript. Hugh joined The Denver Post in 2014 as an editorial assistant.